Bijan Soleymani wrote:
Joel Konkle-Parker <jjk3@msstate.edu> writes:Why can't Sun's j2re and mplayer be provided in non-free or contrib? I've read various things about how their legal status is incompatible with Debian's DFSG, but I thought that's what non-free was for in the first place.Things in non-free must be freely distributable in binary form. I don't think Sun's java allows that. I think it even puts restrictions on that.
Part of the agreement that licensed distributros must sign with Sun is that they will not distribute any other implementations. This would make it impossible for Debian distribute Sun's Java simultaneously with free iwplementations (like Kaffe). [BTW, IANAL] -Roberto
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